Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. Have topics.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

VCAP© will be operated through NAIC’s subsidiary, The Marathon Foundation, a business development network that supports entrepreneurial growth, access to capital and deal flow. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms invest in venture (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/distressed/secondary funds).

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? They used to come in at series B and later.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. You’ll be operating with limited resources, limited knowledge, and quite possibly, a business model poised to change in the immediate future. What are the best tactics to accomplish these goals? Limited capital.

Early Stage 125

Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. For example, we provide direct coaching on how to pitch investors.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. They set out to develop a stylish yet functional handbag for the modern working woman.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Cofounder Angel Investor eCommerce 60

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Lecture 14: How To Operate. Lecture 20: Closing Thoughts and Later-Stage Advice. 4) Not developing a personal tracking and productivity system. 4) Not developing a personal tracking and productivity system. Sooner or later, founders need to be thinking about the second and third product.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

If you’re a late stage company trying to penetrate a new market (think Warby Parker trying to expand internationally), we have people who can help with that. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. We have the ability to help excellent companies throughout their life cycles.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Mobile app development is not just about developing an app for either android or IOS. App development is a cumbersome process that involves a lot of micro-managed aspects to be catered to. Mobile app development is primarily divided into 9 stages right from the phase of ideation to running a successful business.

Mobile 113

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 113

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Today, in steps 10-12 I want to discuss with you raising your first round of money, hiring to develop and maintain your company culture, as well as defining your role in the management of your startup. As a founder you need to develop this skill very quickly. Raise your first round of money, or bootstrap.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

San Francisco 161

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. In addition, huge amounts of executive time are required, as well as hits to key operational, accounting, and communication processes. Today, eight times as many successful startups are acquired, as compared to the number attempting to go public.

IPO 242

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 242

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? They’ll invite you out to events in which you’ll meet their other clients, you can get to know them socially and hopefully develop a real mentorship relationship where every conversation is not on the clock.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. This usually involves more attention to organizational, operational, and strategic challenges. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Osmosis marketing.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 28, 2017

Most of those companies will still require seed capital to assemble their team and fund a year or two of initial development and experiments. In short, token sales allow early stage companies to skip the series B round and beyond. Shift of value from equity holders to token holders. Fuzzy Governance.

Early Stage 20

Early Stage Equity Venture Capital Government 20

NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

While many large companies invest millions to protect their intellectual property portfolio, startups in their early stages can forget to look into their intellectual property altogether or make decisions that have a negative impact later on when the business develops. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

Intellectual Property 91

Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

So it was a timely conversation at this year’s Upfront Summit because the week of the Summit, Sequoia had announced that it was transitioning leadership from Jim Goetz to Roelof Botha (and US operations to Alfred Lin). And so it goes. Lindel Eakman led the discussion with Fred and Andy.

Leadership 161

Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2010

“We wanted to check with you in advance to let you know that we are working on development of our latest. We have a good sense of what later stage VCs are going to look for and can help think about how much you need to raise to get additional interest down the line. Sometimes, we even have good product feedback.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Later Stage 113

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Different investors place different weights on the three elements but as a rule earlier stage investors place more emphasis on the team and later stage investors place more emphasis on the market. Some very early stage investors go as far as to say that for them team is everything.

Seed Stage 60

Seed Stage Later Stage Early Stage Partner 60

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 25, 2008

I have looked at a number of web services both from their inception and early alpha, to beta programs and later stage developed businesses. Services have ranged from simple features that make an every day task easier, to a full blown subscription based service that operates independently of any other system.

Web 60

Web Analytics Later Stage Cloud 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Many investments in startups start with local venture firms in the early stages and then attract non-local venture firms for later stage and larger deal size opportunities. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. That post was written with later stage companies in mind, but I’m now starting to see the same issues crop up in companies at earlier stages as well.

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” So at any given point you are likely operating with a maximum of 9 month’s cash. Sign up customers who are paying you money for a service you can’t 100% guarantee is going to be operational for the full period that they’re expecting. Many are well known.

Monaco 420

Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 420

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals. Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS).

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

What are some common, early mistakes entrepreneurs make when developing their company’s brand identity and message? My advice is simple: Go talk to someone who understands earned media (mainly press) long before you have a need for it — in many cases before you even have a fully developed product or brand.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Conversion Startup PR 120

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Later stage, public companies are right-sizing their teams, so there are many opportunities out there. So just keep an eye out; depending on your growth stage, it could be reasonably attractive. And then there is the 10 million plus scaling stage at which many post-unicorn companies are likely at. David Zhang.

Partner 132

Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

This lead becomes your first contact and is then developed into an account. Marketing development reps were then limited to 100 accounts each and aligned with three to four sales reps to target only 400 accounts. 8 questions to ask before developing your ABM program. The tip of the cone is your initial lead. Gates and weights.

Customer 98

Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

Silicon Valley 170

Silicon Valley United States RSS Customer Development 170

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); Sandberg had been the vice president of global online sales and operations.

Founder 263

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 263